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Prominent Canadians Who Died in 2010 Prominent Canadians who Tavistock, Ont. died in 2010 AUGUST 17 - Jake Dunlap, 85, earned Grey Cup titles as The Canadian Press 1 - Bruce Garvey, 70, former Toronto Star both a player (1950) and general manager Continued from Page 8 correspondent whose foreign assignments (1973, 1976), first CFL player to wear a face included Apollo 13, Nixon’s presidency and the mask, of prostate cancer. Vietnam War, of throat cancer, in his Prince 16 - Maureen Forrester, 79, celebrated Canadian Edward County home. 22 - Helen Hunley, 90, Alberta’s first female opera star. lieutenant-governor from 1985-91 and the 1 -Larry Yachimec, 51, Canadian stage and province’s first woman to become a full-status 22 - Tracy Wright, 50, Toronto actress who screen actor, of cancer, in Barrie, Ont. cabinet minister. frequently collaborated with husband Don McKellar on films including Monkey Warfare, 5 - George Mitchell, 77, former Nova Scotia 22 - Denis Simpson, 59, actor and singer, host Highway 61, and This Movie is Broken. cabinet minister and speaker of the legislature, of Ontario children’s show Polka Dot Door, of a of complications related to Parkinson’s disease. brain hemorrhage. 23 - Ron Atchison, 80, Saskatchewan Roughriders’ six-time all-star and Canadian 8 - Ted Kowalski, 79, original tenor of the 31 - Ernest C. Pinkham, 102, last surviving Football Hall of Famer, in Saskatoon. Canadian 1950s vocal quartet The Diamonds, member of Canada’s first official rugby team in heart disease. 1932, world’s oldest living international player, 24 - Shirley Carr, 81, labour activist, in Niagara Falls, Ont. in Vancouver. 10 - Shirley Thomson, 80, leading national figure in the promotion of visual arts in Canada. NOVEMBER 28 - Leo Bernier, 81, dubbed Emperor of the North for his tenure as Tory MPP for Kenora 12 - Mario Lague, 52, communications director 2 - Jim Clench, 61, bassist and vocalist who from 1966-87. for Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, killed in played with Canadian rock bands April Wine motorcycle accident in Ottawa. and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of lung cancer, 28 - Willie Huber, 52, former Detroit Red Wings in a Montreal hospital. defenceman who played for a decade in the NHL in the 1970s and 1980s, of an apparent 29 - Courtney Milne, 66, Saskatchewan nature 5 - David Steuart, 94, former senator and leader photographer and author who explored sacred heart attack at his home in Hamilton. sites and landscapes around the world, of of Saskatchewan’s Liberals, in Kelowna, B.C. cancer, at home in Grandora, Sask. 29 - Frank Rigney, 74, Canadian Football Hall 10 - Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, patriarch of a notorious of Famer who anchored Winnipeg’s offensive line during the Bombers’ glory years under Bud 31 - John Rowswell, 55, mayor of Sault Ste. Mafia family known for wielding power within Canada and internationally, shot and killed at Marie, of cancer. Grant. his home in Montreal. SEPTEMBER JULY 13 - Noah Augustine, 39, former New 7 - Claude Bechard, 41, Quebec cabinet Brunswick aboriginal chief, in a single vehicle 3 - Murray Chercover, 80, former CTV minister, pancreatic cancer. accident. president and CEO, from complications following pneumonia. 18 - Irving Schwartz, 81, one of Cape Breton’s 18 - Gaye Stewart, 87, member of the Toronto most successful entrepreneurs and an officer of Maple Leafs’ 1942 and 1947 Stanley Cup 5 - Bob Probert, 45, former NHL tough guy, the Order of Canada, of cancer and Parkinson’s winning teams. after collapsing with severe chest pains while disease. boating on Lake St. Clair in the Windsor area. 18 - Momilo (Mike) Stojanovic, 63, former 21 - Sindi Hawkins, 52, former B.C. Liberal Canadian international striker and a member of 18 - Annie Welsh, 95, who as a toddler survived cabinet minister, of leukemia. the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. the Dec. 6, 1917 Halifax explosion and came to be known as Ashpan Annie, at a Halifax seniors 22 - Jackie Burroughs, 71, British-born 19 - Former NHL coach Pat Burns, 58, the only residence. Canadian actress known for her role as man to win the Adams Trophy as the NHL’s top schoolteacher Hetty King on television series coach with three different teams (Montreal in 21 - John E. (Jack) Irving, 78, New Brunswick Road to Avonlea, of gastric cancer, in her 1989, Toronto in 1993 and Boston in 1998), of business magnate and former head of several Toronto home. cancer. construction and engineering companies. 29 - Norm Atkins, 76, longtime senator and 22 - David Lam, 87, former B.C. lieutenant- 21 - Norma Reveler, 46, long-time broadcasting legendary political operator who ran both governor, of prostate cancer. and communications journalist and former chief federal and provincial campaigns for the of communications for the Canadian Progressive Conservatives. 25 - Artist Doris McCarthy, 100, best known for Paralympic Committee, of cancer. her Canadian landscapes and depictions of OCTOBER arctic icebergs. 22 - John Campbell, 79, revered Cape Breton fiddler, in Boston. 3 - Dianne Whalen, 59, Newfoundland and 28 - Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born actor Labrador’s minister of municipal affairs, of best known for his roles in Airplane! and The 22 - Dale Anne Freed, 61, veteran Toronto Star journalist. cancer. Naked Gun, pneumonia, at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale. 10 - Paul Rockett, 90, credited with changing 27 - Maury Chaykin, 61, Canadian character the face of Canadian magazine photography. 28 - William Keir Clark, 100, former provincial actor. cabinet minister and mayor of Montague and 10 - A. Edison Stairs, 85, successful New P.E.I.’s oldest former politician. 28 - Todd Hardy, 53, former Yukon NDP leader, Brunswick entrepreneur, former Conservative of leukemia. cabinet minister and chairman of NB Power, in Prominent Canadians Who Died in 2010 is hospital in Waterville, N.B. Continued on Page 10 29 - David MacPherson McKay, 87, highly regarded journalist in the Maritimes for more 17 - John Finlay, 81, former Ontario MP, in Listen to The ‘X’ Zone - www.xzonepodcast.com than 44 years.